Marine Depot: AquaMaxx Calcium and Zeo Reactors starting at $139.95 Premium Aquatics: Aquacare Model 1 Calcium Reactor $299.99 ($579.95) TB Aquatics: Bubble magus qq hang on back skimmer. $109.95 Coralmorphologic: Aqua-Blue w/ Asymetrical Pink Splotches Ricordea $25 Ocean Gallery II: ORA Red Planet Table $60 ($80) Aquarium Specialty: IceCap Reef Illuminations 4 6 T5 2 [...]

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Today ORA announced the latest in a string of new releases – the ORA Solitaryensis.   For those of you who love the tabling Acroporids, as well as those of you who never heard of something so cool, this one is for you.  Much like other treasured tabletop species, this ORA release is said to be [...]

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The new Starfire Mini-Reef Tank from WilCo Designs are stunning little aquariums for the aquarist looking for form and function from their cube. Coming in three sizes – 22, 32 and 52 gallons – the Mini-Reef Tank is constructed from ultra-clear Starfire® glass on the three visible panels to give it a great rimless look [...]

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The CoralVue LumenBrite hybrid hood looks to be one light-producing monster. Sporting metal halide, T5 and LED lights, this hood will definitely give you a lot of lighting punch. Premium Aquatics is teasing us with some images and basic information on this hood and is accepting preorders for its future release. Utilizing LumenBrite reflectors, the [...]

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New Acropora species are not discovered very often so it was with great excitement that we came to learn that a recent biodiversity survey in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands discovered a new Acropora species from Papahanaumokuakea. If you’ll recall, last year a survey to the Papahanaumokuakea National Marine Monument yielded other new species of marine [...]

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The Horizontal calcium reactor above may be photographed standing up, but this is one little number that was specially built to lay flat. If necessity is the mother of invention, then tight space restrictions in the stand of William Scherbath meant that he’d have to come up with something different if he wanted a calcium [...]

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Superstar deepwater reef fish collector Rufus Kimura and Co. have successfully captured a tiny little masked angelfish juvenile, Genicanthus personatus. Right as we were retiring for last night we heard whisperings that a juvenile Genicanthus personatus had been caught at 250 feet depth near Oahu and this morning we awoke to discover a phone quality [...]

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Aqua Driver has just released two new sizes in their automatic line of Skim Clean. The smallest size is 50-90 mm which means that it was designed for very small protein skimmers and might be a good fit for a nano protein skimmer. The other newly released size is the 90-200mm which allows you to [...]

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